This should be common sense 101. Like, in just the past few years we've had how many examples now? That exemplified the point to NEVER TRUST THE CLIENT! Why does this simple beginner level mistake keep getting made? That's not nearly as bad though as everything being "highly secured" in Fing plain text!

Funny you say #notmyblizzard because frankly they are not. Activision acquired blizzard and if seems to show more and more every year. This year was diablo but I'm sure all of their games will get a turn in the gutter after all look at bfa and compare it to something like mists of pandaria or warlords of dranor

First of all, they didn't aquire blizzard they merged with holding company that owned blizzard. Vivendi was kinda told to sell video game division by analysts every single quarter. In 2013 Activision-Blizzard got completely separated from Vivendi and I bet a lot of power to the side that pitched in the most.

Until merge Blizzard was like Saab of videogame developers - no supervision, big ideas, big cost to parent company.

So pre merger they just made good games for the sake of making good games and made their money by being better than the competition. Post merger they are slowly but surely just becoming another corporate device to make money from the video game industry now damn the game damn the players. I dont think blizzard has a community for any of their games that are happy right now outside of overwatch. That's alot of customers ready to leave.

Basically, an agent is your interface to the consul. Everywhere you want to access consul - you run an agent.

An agent takes care of discovery, polling, which node to talk to, splits, the client library doesn't need to think about it — from a library point of view, it's talking to on machine that is always on the same host.

That way client libraries become extremely lightweight. Generally speaking, you need one agent per one IP talking to consul cluster. If you have multiple containers talking to consul from the same machine (i.e. Pod in k8s terms) - you only need one agent for the entire pod.

The Xbox One was announced with that as a "feature" back in May of 2013. Microsoft reneged on that plan after massive consumer backlash but by then the bad publicity and the PS4s lower price point gave Sony and early edge in the current console generation.

eh... it's really hard to tell if it's an S-Class or an E-Class... As an E-owner, it's a toss-up.

Also... even if the car is $120K, let's say the S-class AMG... I'm not sure it's justified. As long as you keep the car washed regularly and clay-barred/polished yearly... the paint will look good for a few years. And... after 3-or so years... it's time for a new car anyway... so, what's the point of spending $5K on something that is pointless?

If it's more convenient to you to memorize which stores to blacklist instead of paying a few extra cents, that's your choice, I won't try and stop you.

I have had plenty of encounters where someone would rather harass a service worker, slam down and leave their bottle of water on the counter, and rage-drive to a different store than pay a few extra cents. It's honestly an embarrassing display.

Also, those fees add up. Fast. My store has four workers. The fees accumulate to like half a person's pay for the day. Having a customer pay for their own transaction is not a bad business model, and that's just silly to even suggest. There are plenty of unnecessary fees charged by corporations to complain about; this is not one of those.

I know you said you don't care, which is unfortunate, and also what I tell every other cheap noncustomer when they rudely tell me they're never coming to my store again over a few cents and a very routine policy that I can't change that every other store on my street has as well.

Those stores usually close by your place, so it's easy to remember which one has a fee and which one doesn't. Same goes for gas stations.

I have had plenty of encounters where someone would rather harass a service worker, slam down and leave their bottle of water on the counter, and rage-drive to a different store than pay a few extra cents. It's honestly an embarrassing display.

Unless you don't have a sign that clearly says that you have a minimum policy for a credit card, I would just simply walk out right when I see that sign if I know I won't have enough products to buy. Luckily, where I live there, is a chain store on every corner.

also what I tell every other cheap noncustomer when they rudely tell me they're never coming to my store again over a few cents and a very routine policy that I can't change that every other store on my street has as well.

Are you really struggling that hard financially that you're willing to just walk out of a store that has a few cent card charge...? What is the real issue here? Is it the principle of the thing? I am just trying to understand why you feel so passionately against a credit card charge that you would simply walk out of a store like that.

Well, my problem is not with "we add a fee to credit card transactions", but with "10$ minimum for credit card". I'm not going to spend more than I need just to meet your minimum because you can't afford transaction fee. I don't carry cash, ever. If you don't accept credit cards today than it's your problem, next time you cry about "big chains killing moms and pops shops" - it's because you didn't adapt to times.

It's convenient for you that you have less cash in your register and don't have to deal with filthy paper. It's convenient for you that I can pull up to a gas station and you don't even need to see me or talk to me.

Most of the world is indeed accessing internet via phone. People who don't have laptop/desktop and only use phone did have it in the past too, so that group is already priced in. If you saying dekstops are dying because people have phones with big screens - that's retarded. Most of the sold Android devices are no where near flagships in terms of performance.

Good luck writing code to run on those servers with your phone or doing any kind of graphics work. Tablets are at most is complementary device to desktop when it comes to professional work. Video games not going anywhere and neither Android nor iOS can actually do anything here.

Anyway, I'm done with this subject. If you think internet is killing Microsoft go ahead and short it.

I haven’t heard of Vagaro, but PayPal and Shopify are not direct competitors. PayPal and Shopify are tailored towards E-commerce, and SQ is Point of Sale systems for brick and mortar merchants. I still think SQ will be here to stay because of this reason.

Wrong, new shit comes out all the time, your skin tone change depending on a season.

New stuff comes out, but I highly doubt its truly new formulas and such more than rehashing old ones or tweeking existing ones. Like I mention elsewhere the makeup is largely the same the only difference is the image of each brand. As to skin tone changing I would say that is dumb, but again I am a guy so my makeup knowledge is limited though I doubt it changes that much.

employee turnover rate is pretty high too.

Not surprising. Its largely retail. Retail itself has high turnover rate and I believe it has the highest turn overrates out of any industry.

New stuff comes out, but I highly doubt its truly new formulas and such more than rehashing old ones or tweeking existing ones. Like I mention elsewhere the makeup is largely the same the only difference is the image of each brand.

Well. No. When I say new stuff I mean new stuff of different brands and collabs, limited runs.

As to skin tone changing I would say that is dumb, but again I am a guy so my makeup knowledge is limited though I doubt it changes that much.

Not surprising. Its largely retail. Retail itself has high turnover rate and I believe it has the highest turn overrates out of any industry.

Yeah, that is true. Still, they would rather hire someone from pizza hut than promote someone.